Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.